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A Strange Email, a Five Eyes Warning, and the New Front Line of Chinese Espionage
Season 2 Episode 18
It started with a strange email: an unsolicited invitation for host Terri Wu to become a "senior geopolitical analyst" for a shadowy "defense advisor…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Deceiving Heaven: How America Keeps Getting China Wrong
Season 2 Episode 17
Terri sits down with Piero Tozzi, a China expert whose deep roots in both Western and Confucian thought give him a truly rare lens on the U.S.–China …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
‘Sea Blind’ to China’s Threat, and Waking Up To It
Season 2 Episode 16
The Department of Justice unsealed an indictment on May 19, charging Chinese shipping container manufacturers with price-fixing their products during…
5 months ago
Why China Is Finally Closing a Side Door It Tolerated for Years
Season 2 Episode 15
For years, Chinese investors used Tiger, Futu, and Longbridge to buy Tesla and Nvidia — through a side door Beijing called illegal but tolerated anyw…
5 months, 1 week ago
What Does US–China ‘Constructive Strategic Stability’ Look Like?
Season 2 Episode 14
The Trump–Xi summit may not have accomplished much, but both countries walked away with new labels for the U.S.–China relationship.
For Beijing, it's …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Entangled Combat: The Chinese Style of Competition Washington Should Understand
Season 2 Episode 13
Most Westerners in business operate on the baseline assumption that hard work leads to success and beating the competition.
With business in communist…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
On Shadow Fleets, ‘Teapots,’ and Layered Approaches to Avoiding Sanctions
Season 2 Episode 12
Teapots, gas stations, and shadow fleets sound like a grab bag of unconnected things, but they’re all part of a complex system keeping a terrorist re…
6 months ago
Why a Once-Taboo Topic on China Is Now a US Bestseller
Season 2 Episode 11
Forced organ harvesting in China was once a taboo topic, in both China and the United States. But now, a book about it, “Killed to Order,” has made i…
6 months, 1 week ago
The Battlefield Vulture—China’s Postwar Build-Back Playbook
Season 2 Episode 10
Beijing avoids the battlefield, then shows up for the rebuild. Precedents include Iraq and Afghanistan. The Chinese regime moved quickly to secure oi…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Learning Machines or Machine Learning? How Education Shapes the U.S.–China Tech Race
Season 2 Episode 9
How much could concepts such as high school education and high-tech development overlap? Terri says a lot.
Hear in this week’s episode, along with pro…
6 months, 3 weeks ago